Hello

I am aware I can change the display name for each user manually by navigating to dashboard>users>all users>edit user and change “Display name publicly as” but I was hoping there was a way I could change the default “Display name publicly as” to first name only so all existing forum topics/ users change to first name only and future users also only show first name only. Is this possible?

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 2 months ago]

untested, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_get_reply_author_display_name' , 'rew_reply_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_reply_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $reply_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
	$user = get_userdata($author_id); 
	$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_author_display_name' , 'rew_topic_change_to_first_name', 10 , 2 ) ;

function rew_topic_change_to_first_name ($author_name, $topic_id) {
	// Get the author ID
	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
	$user = get_userdata($author_id); 
	$first_name = $user->user_firstname;
return $first_name ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[@thesupplyroom Participant 3 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Robin!

Thank you so much, that worked as expected! One question/ issue though – the objective is to completely anonymise the user, however, when you hover over the “first name” the user link still shows their first and last name

example http://www.mywebsite.com/user/daviddossantos

I guess this would be a difficult one to solve as the link uses their “username” so if thats set to firstnamelastname then we cant change it… right?

Thank you for your help on this.

David

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 2 months ago]

pretty much – if you want to not show user profiles, then use

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Profile

where you can set profiles not to display

[@kampbros Participant 3 years, 2 months ago]

Thank you guys.